Iran continues to provoke the United States, demonstrating impressive capabilities in the use of combat UAVs. Tehran released a video on Wednesday showing a US Navy destroyer being monitored by an Iranian drone.
The video shows the vessel and its defense systems marked with the vessel's firing sights, alongside a short photograph of the drone's operators. According to the Iranians, it is an Ababil 5 attack drone designed to launch missiles at ground targets. If Iran's claims are true, this is the first documented use of an unmanned aerial vehicle.
Iranian armed drone monitors US destroyer in Persian Gulf
The video was shown as part of an exercise held by the Iranian navy alongside the air force and the Revolutionary Guards, which uses the huge fleet of drones built by Tehran in recent years and is to a large extent a substitute for the outdated Iranian air force. According to Tasnim News Agency, more than 200 UAVs of various types were used during the exercise, including suicide drones that reach ranges of hundreds of kilometers.
An IRGC source told Fars News Agency that the organization had unveiled a new Kamam-19 drone. The source told Fars News Agency that an exercise was carried out in an attempt to shoot down a drone using another drone and that the exercise was successful.
In recent years, Iran has developed and refined its array of unmanned aerial vehicles, for which it is considered a regional power in this field. In recent years, Tehran has developed a large number of models of various aircraft designed for observation, bombing and even use as "loitering munition" capable of circling around a target, conducting observation and then crashing on it. Iranian-made UAVs, mainly Mohajer and Fajr-360, are used by the Russian army in its war in Ukraine and have caused heavy damage to various infrastructure in the country.
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